Today, a project such as the Erie Canal would be drafted out during its planning stages before breaking ground, Talbot said, but technological restraints of the early 1800s meant surveyors worked ...

A success from the start, the original canal was widened during the mid-1800s . . . and in the 1900s was replaced by an even larger waterway. A boy drives a team of mules on the Erie Canal towpath ...

Andy Flynn visits the Adirondack Museum for a closer look at an early 19th century map of the region. Published in 1818, the map was divided into four sections, including one for the Adirondack ...

It's not often you run across a spot hereabouts that's been used by industry since "the early 1800's." But there is one, in the little Erie Canal village of Clyde in Wayne County, and state ...

The Wabash & Erie Canal Park holds the only remaining navigable segment of the historic Wabash & Erie Canal in Indiana, which was once 468 miles long. Interested individuals can register online at ...

Jack Kelly detailed how the Erie Canal was built and how the waterway became central to early 19th century real-life and legendary events, including the first "murder of the century," the birth of ...

A dip in a city street is one of the last reminders of a canal that cut a path through Erie's downtown for several decades in the mid-1800s. During its brief life span, the Erie Extension Canal ...

When we pass by the Erie Canal Museum this month, give the Syracuse Weighlock Building a high five. The museum is 50 years old in 2012. The Erie Canal Museum is a tribute to the glory of the Erie ...

Dick Blume/The Post-Standard, 2008 THE ERIE CANAL outside Fayetteville is a popular spot for walkers and runners. By Lisa Meltzer Penn DeWitt Canal Days has long been a tradition marking the ...

The History of the Warehouse District. Special | 26m 46s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Shaped by trading via the Miami Erie Canal in the 1800s, this unique district thrives. Aired 10/04/2018 ...